Freytag is a German surname, meaning ''Friday''. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Freytag (1608–1650), Polish mathematician and military engineer *

Arny Freytag Arny Freytag (born April 12, 1950) is an American photographer who specializes in glamour photography. He began working for ''Playboy'' magazine in 1976 and at one time was one of only two photographers who produced the ''Playboy'' centerfold pho ...

(born 1950), American photographer *

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag (19 September 1788 – 16 November 1861) was a German philologist. Background Freytag was born in Lüneburg. He studied philology and theology at the University of Göttingen, where from 1811 to 1813 he worke ...

(1788–1861), German philologist *

Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag (; 13 July 1816 – 30 April 1895) was a German novelist and playwright. Life Freytag was born in Kreuzburg (Kluczbork) in Silesia. After attending the school at Oels (Oleśnica), he studied philology at the universities of ...

(1816–1895), German dramatist * Heinrich Hermann Freytag (1759–1811), German/Dutch organ-builder *

Michael Freytag Michael Freytag (born 4 May 1958 in Hamburg) is a German politician, jurist, former minister of finance of Hamburg and former chairman of the CDU Hamburg. Life and work After finishing school in 1977 at Wandsbeker Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium, F ...

(born 1958), German politician **

Freytag's pyramid A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film. There are different kinds of narrative structures worldwide, which have bee ...

Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven Alexander Otto Hermann Wolfgang Bernd(t) Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven (6 February 1914 – 27 February 2007), was a Baltic German officer in the German Army during World War II. In 1956, he joined the German Federal Armed Forces, the ''Bunde ...

(1914–2007), Baltic German general *

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; 12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self-displa ...

(1874–1927), Dada-artist * Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven (1899–1944), Baltic German member of the resistance against Adolf Hitler *

Siegfried Freytag Siegfried Freytag (10 November 1919 – 1 June 2003) was a World War II German Luftwaffe pilot and wing commander. As a fighter ace, he was credited with 102 aerial victories of which 49 victories were claimed over the Eastern Front. Among ...

(1919–2003), German fighter pilot * Wilhelm von Freytag (1720–1798), German field-marshall in Hanoverian service * Susanne Freytag (born 1957), founding and present member of the German pop-synth band Propaganda

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